Hi all. I've posted a few threads here before but haven't been active due to school and stressful life stuff. I haven't been diagnosed with DID and don't know if I will be but I thought I'd get an opinion on this. I put a trigger warning on this just in case.
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Anyway, I was wondering if a recent event I've been having is a sign of an alter or just a sleep disturbance? So this started about a week ago, my brother would come into my room to talk to me because he couldn't sleep and told me that he would have a full conversation with me. When he would bring up the conversation the next day, I would have no memory of the conversation. I thought I was sleep talking until he told me that I opened my eyes and looked at him, seeming completely awake and alert. He started recording me when he would come in to talk to me and I listened to them and I would answer him in sentences and the responses sounded like answers I would give if I was awake at the time. He even asked me if I was sleep talking and I responded, "No." What was interesting is in the most recent one, I asked him a question. I asked him, "Did you record me last night?" My brother responded no and I reacted like I was disappointed. He then asked if I wanted him to record and I said yes. This was interesting because in an earlier recording, I became annoyed from him recording me and told him to delete the recording. There were also a few times where he didn't record because he thought I was awake, even sitting up one time and giving him a hug good night another time in the exact way I would hug him if I was awake. I saw my doctor a few days ago and he suspects it could be a sleep disorder (from this and other factors but after I got home from my doctor's appointment I realized I'd left out a lot of things I wanted to talk about with him. He referred me to a neurologist to get an EEG and I need to make that appointment) but what do you all think? Is it a sleep disorder or an alter that becomes active at night to cover for me when my brother comes in to talk to me?
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